A Look Back At 2020 : COVID-19 Is Testing the Resilience of the Economy and Markets

The COVID-19 pandemic was 2020’s major theme. A year ago, no one could have imagined that an obscure disease that afflicted a few people who went to a market in Wuhan, China, would have such a huge impact on all of the economic and financial news. The disease has infected nearly 76 million people and caused over 1.6 million deaths, according to official data (graph 1).